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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
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Icicle Gorge trail, Wenatchee National Forest, Chelan County, Washington, US
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Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, US
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New York, New York, United States
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Lanai City, Hawaii, United States
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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Paraiba, Brazil
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Orinda, California, United States
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Orinda, California, United States
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Mnele, Ae, or SoapberrySapindaceae (Soapberry family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (Huallai, Mauna Loa, Klauea on Hawaii Island)Oahu (Cultivated)Apparently the pulp of the fruit was used by early Hawaiians as a soap for shampooing hair and washing clothes in the past.More at:NPH00008
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Sapindus_saponaria
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Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Lonomea, ulu, or Oahu soapberrySapindaceae (Soapberry family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (only in meisic and dry forests of northwest Kauai and in the Waianae and Koolau mountains from Waimalu to Niu valleys on Oahu)IUCN: VulnerableOahu (Cultivated)FlowersGreen fruits
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5187914267/in/dateposted/Ripe fruits
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5187914211/in/photolist-...Habit
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5187914415/in/photolist-...The roundish or oval fruits resemble dates and smell like figs or raisins, but are not edible. The very hard blackish seeds were used by early Hawaiians for medicinal purposes and to string for gorgeous permanent lei. Seeds lei are still made today.Early Hawaiians used the hard wood to make spears.EtymologyThe generic name Sapindus is derived from Latin sapo, or soap, and indicus, Indian. Crushed lonomea fruit makes a sudsy lather when mixed with water and was formerly used as a soap substitute, and thus aptly named the "soapberry tree."The specific epithet oahuensis is taken from the island of Oahu, one of two islands this species is naturally occurring.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Sapindus_oahuensis
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Acer palmatum 'Dissectum'. Fall colors of a dissected Japanese Maple. A. palmatum is a close relative of the Californa native vine maple (A. circinatum.) Photographed in a Private Garden in Berkeley, CA
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Family: SapindaceaeDistribution: Common along hill slopes on low shrubs. Distributed in India and Abyssinia. Photographed at Velugonda hills of Eastren ghats in Nellore district.Description: Tendrillate climbing herbs. Stems wiry. Leaves alternate, biternate, pubescent leaflets 2.5-5x1-3.5cm ovate-lanceolate, deeply incised, obtuse, end one mucronate. Flowers 3-5mm across, white in axillary corymbose racemes, the lowest pair of pedicels transformed into spiral tendrils. Sepals 4, concave, Petals 4 in two pairs, Disk of 2 glands opposite to 2 lower petals, Stamens 8,filaments unequal connate below, Ovary 3 celled, style short 3 fid, Fruit an inflated trigonous capsule.Capsule globose, not winged. Seeds black with a small orbicular white hilum. Reference: e floras, ENVIS, Flora of Madras Presidency by J.S.Gamble. Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana and A.S.Rao, ENVIS
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Yerbas Buenas, Maule Region, Chile
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Mpumalanga, South Africa